Project 16:15

17/06/2026

Accommodation Concern in Rushden are looking to recruit 2 Tenancy Support Workers.
If you are interested, please follow the link below.

15/06/2026

We had an awesome team out yesterday morning, running the community café for our street community. There really is something special about setting up, away from the public gaze, where those who need us can just sit, chat, enjoy breakfast, and the peace which comes from taking those precious moments away from the usual survival hustle of the day.
For almost 10 years now, this has been my passion, to demonstrate to others that their situations and circumstances do not dictate their value and worth. We rarely get recognised with awards, most of what we do is unseen by the public, and we certainly are not on the Christmas card list of our towns more popular poverty/homeless charities. We have fought against false accusations, sly, underhanded attempts to discredit us, continued through, and survived lockdown, but always maintained our desire to make a difference, whether its in the life of the one, or the lives of the many.
Unfortunately the brain 🧠 fart I had last year, has caused some ongoing issues, and meant some areas of our service had to change, and has forced us to remodel and rethink our operation, as a whole, which has led to the charity reaching a point where I cannot determine what happens next, or how much longer we can keep going. But whatever happens, and for how long, what I can gaurentee is that we will not shift from our principles or our position that it is always a privilege to serve.

Stan

05/06/2026

In terms of the impact we are making, Rushden was definitely a good move for us.

5 days into June already, and summer is just hanging out around the corner, playing it's own celestial version of hide and seek 😀 And also, just around the corner, hanging out in it's own bistro courtyard, is Café 16:15, giving a preseason burst of brightness to give your day a well deserved, maybe needed, boost 👍

We have food to tantalis your tastebuds at prices that won't cause your wallet to shrivel up in despair, and we are a fully voluntary community café, supporting the Project 16:15 street support charity, so good food and a good cause.

If your a regular, we appreciate you, and if you haven't been yet, we can't wait to meet you.

30/05/2026

Not yet a year open,and our Café 16:15 has received it's first award.

22/05/2026

We, like everyone else who knows and understands what voluntary outreach to the streets, is really like, and the associated risks, self sacrifices and costs that come with it, are both sad and understanding of Tuesday Night Team TNT decision to cease, what for them has been a seven year Labour of love. Its tough out there, physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually, but when you grasp what a privilege it is to serve, all of that is taken on-board, swallowed up by the passion and the drive, to make a difference in just one life.
One of the hardest things for Laura and the TNT team is feeling like they are letting our street and homeless communities down, which is why I have made the decision, as we did when the Tuesday Night Street Church was forced to close, and as we did during lockdown, to utilise some of our resources and fill as much of the Tuesday Night gap as is possible, for the interim. It won't be on the same scale as TNT, as our focus will be more the street sleeping community, rather than the growing number of individuals who are driven out of accommodation because of hunger, but it will help to keep what they have built ticking over.

Stan

18/05/2026

Project 16:15is part of the Local Community Fund. To find out more about our project and choose to support us, click here: https://membership.coop.co.uk/causes/96362

17/05/2026

It's good to have the community café back out. Such a resource makes a big difference to the service we are able to offer.

13/05/2026

Gonna shamelessly plug ourselves here and our Café 16:15 as well, and ask for your nominations in the best Café and in the charity category. We will have been going 10 years next year, as a fully voluntary charity, and have made huge differences to so many lives along the way.
Our teams have been out, supporting our street communities, in all weathers, at all hours, all through lockdown, and have set our to deliver dignity, value and worth, from the doorway right through to, for some, their final journey.
We have been instrumental in some of our long term rough-sleepers finally making the choice to take accomodation and assistance, we have reunited families, and helped many to escape the shame and torment of addiction and prostitution.
Then of course we have our café, which we opened almost 1 year ago, to help support the work we do across the streets. Café 16:15 has already become a popular community space in Rushden, also fully voluntary and supportive of other organisations.
We don't bang our own drum very often, but this time, why the heck not. We might not be the most fashionable charity to be linked with, we might not have the budgets, finances and connections of the more 'profitable' organisations, and we definitely aren't the most popular amongst the powers that be in some sectors, but our volunteers deserve to be recognised just as much as anyone else's.

So please take a minute and follow the link, and give us a mention.

Thank you

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07/05/2026

May 2019, we lost one of our streets biggest characters. Sam Wright was loud, opinionated, bright and bubbly. She was a woman who believed in and stood for justice, but being the individual she was, meant she so often found herself banned from drop in services and the Hope Centre, as was the case on the morning she was found, unconscious. And sadly she never woke up.
I had the honour of organising and hosting her memorial service, where she was spoken about and remembered with so much love. We also served salmon bagels 🥯 as a reminder of the request she made to me, on that very first morning I took Project 16:15 to the streets in the October of 2017 " Can you bring salmon bagels 🥯 next time, they are my favourite"

Sam will always be missed, and remembered.

R.I.E.P

06/05/2026

Getting the café summer ready

I did consider not posting today, but then a had a good hard word with myself, gave myself a slap, and stepped into my daily responsibility of blatant self promotion ✊️
We are continuing the Caribbean summer theme, with new amazing recipes coming along soon, to our Jerk chicken 🐔, rice 🍚 and peas, which is not for the faint hearted by the way, we have a fresh batch of Caribbean coleslaw, and our own, Jerk inspired, volcano chicken 😋
New today is an 8 hour, slow cooked meatloaf, and still with us, because of popularity is the sweet potato 🥔 curry 🍛 and the chicken 🐔 Tikka Masala.
Mixed bean and Greek salads 🥗 are ready to be freshly prepared to order, sausage rolls are meat 🍖 packed and ready to go. The home made carrot 🥕 cake is sitting alongside the lemon 🍋 cake, crying out to be consumed, alongside one of our own blend coffees ☕️.
And coming soon, along the back counter, will be our slushy and shaved ice 🧊 station. Now that's worth the sun 🌞 making an appearance for.

But whatever your day holds, remember, you are unique, you matter, you have value and you have worth. However of you should ever feel otherwise, Café 16:15 has time for you.